The State of Sinlessness

(October 29, 1967)

The
state of sinlessness is merely this: The WHOLE desire to attack is gone,
and so there is no reason to perceive the Son of God as other than he
is. The NEED for guilt is gone, because it has no purpose, and is
meaningless without the goal of sin. Attack and sin are bound as ONE
illusion, each the cause and aim and JUSTIFIER of the other. Each is
meaningless alone, but SEEMS to draw a meaning from the other. Each
depends upon the other for whatever sense it seems to have. And no-one
COULD believe in one unless the other were the truth, for each attests
the other MUST be true.

Attack
makes Christ your enemy, and God along with Him. MUST you not be afraid,
with enemies like these? And must you not be fearful of YOURSELF? For
you HAVE hurt yourself, and made your Self your enemy. And now you MUST
believe you are not you, but something alien to yourself and
"something else," a "something" to be feared instead of loved.
Who would attack whatever he sees as wholly innocent? And who, BECAUSE
he wishes to attack, can FAIL to think it MUST be guilty, to DESERVE the
wish, and leave HIM innocent? And who would see the Son of God as
innocent, and wish him dead?

Christ
stands before you both, each time you look on one another. He has NOT
gone because your eyes are closed. But what is there to see by searching
for your Savior, seeing Him through sightless eyes? It is NOT Christ you
see by looking thus. It is the enemy, CONFUSED with Christ, you look
upon. And HATE BECAUSE there is no sin in him for you to see. Nor do you
hear his plaintive call, unchanged in content in WHATEVER form the call
is made, that you UNITE with him, and JOIN with him in innocence and
peace. And yet, beneath the ego's senseless shrieks, such IS the Call
that God has given him, that YOU might hear in him His Call to YOU, and
answer by returning unto God what is His own.

The
Son of God asks only this of you; that you return to him what is his
due, that you may SHARE in it with him. Alone does NEITHER have it. So
must it remain useless to both. Together, it will give to each an EQUAL
strength to save the other, and save himself along WITH him. FORGIVEN by
you, your Savior offers YOU salvation. CONDEMNED by you, he offers death
to you. In everyone you see but the reflection of what you chose to have
HIM be to you. If you decide against his proper function, the ONLY one
he really has in truth, you are depriving him of all the joy he WOULD
have found if he fulfilled the role God gave to him. But think not
Heaven is lost to him alone. Nor can it be regained unless the way is
shown to him through YOU, that YOU may find it, walking by his side.

It
is no sacrifice that he be saved, for BY his freedom will you gain your
own. To let HIS function be fulfilled is but the means to let YOURS be.
And so you walk towards Heaven or towards hell, but NOT alone. How
beautiful his sinlessness will be, when you perceive it! And how great
will be YOUR joy when he is free to offer you the gift of sight God gave
to him for you. He HAS no need but this; that you allow him freedom to
complete the task God gave to him. Remembering but this; that what HE
does YOU do, along with him. And AS you see him, so do YOU define the
function he will have for you, until you see him differently, and LET
him be what God APPOINTED that he be to you.

Against
the hatred that the Son of God may cherish toward himself, is God
believed to be without the power to save what He created from the pain
of hell. But in the love he shows himself is God made free to LET His
Will be done. In each of you, you see the picture of your OWN belief of
what the Will of God MUST be for you. In YOUR forgiveness will you
understand His Love for you. Through your attack, believe He hates you,
thinking Heaven must be hell. Look once again upon your brother, NOT
without the understanding that he is the way to Heaven or to hell, as
YOU perceive him. But forget not this; the role you give to him is given
YOU, and YOU will walk the way you pointed out to him, BECAUSE it is
your judgment made upon yourself.